"The mashup could see where the outbreaks are in different regions of the country, said Rod Smith, vice president of IBM’s emerging Internet technologies unit. A business can now share that mashup with its stores and regions so they can see what’s going on with it, and the CDC can share it with state services, maybe to see what other health facilities or health products are out there."

With the current economic conditions, companies are being forced to think long and hard about how to extract as much value from their IT infrastructures as possible. But what does a smarter infrastructure actually mean—and how can it help my company? That's where business event processing can play a role, and why business leaders need to understand it's potential.

A lot of enterprise information exists in mainframe applications thatare currently accessed using 3270 or 5250 consoles. If this mainframedata could be available in a format that allows it to be easilycombined with other data, either within the enterprise or available onthe Internet, business users could have the ability to harness thisdata to help solve business issues using a feature-rich, modern browserinterface

So wouldn't it be great to have a way to take some of your legacy "green screen" 3270 mainframe applications such as

and convert that data into a data feed which can be used within a loan officer dashboard like the following:

We are the last generation of humans who will ever be able to say that we lived in a time before the Internet existed. Yet, for something so new, the impact of the Internet is undeniable. The world of advertising is not immune to this change and there are a lot of smart, creative people spending their days figuring out how to use the Internet for advertising in new and interesting ways.

TheFutureOfAds.com does an analysis of what's good and bad in new advertising strategies that push the envelope. I find the intersection of "Advertising" and "Web 2.0" interesting,especially the forays into Social Media sites like Facebook and Twitter. I particularly enjoyed reading about their take on Honda's creation of an ad on Vimeo that could not be done on YouTube.